Immigration Bill Expected To Tap The Treasury For $ 126 Billion
With the contemporary mood in the United States Congress and the Bush Administration set on tightening the borders-the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Senate version of the Immigration Bill will cost $ 126 billion over ten
years.Jonathan Weisman of the Washington Post reports that the Senate version of the Immigration Bill carries a
price tag of $ 126 billion over ten years. If this legislation becomes law-31,000 new Federal Employees must come on board within five years. This think tank also predicts that 870
miles of vehicle barriers and fences and their upkeep must come into being. The price tag for this effort comes to an estimated $ 3.3 billion. An additional outlay of $ 50 billion must come along to cover the cost of Federal Entitlements such as the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credits, and Social Security. As a price tag for this inititive- the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the following dollars should finance these efforts over five years: $ 800 million to hire 1,000 additional
border Patrol Agents; $ 2.6 billion to build detention facilities for 20,000; $ 3.3 billion to construct and care for 370 miles of border fences along with 500 miles of car barricades along the U.S. Mexico Border and $ 1. 6 billion to start a computerized system that confirms the eligibility of a potential employee for legal work. To stress the proposal`s
modest effect on the United States Treasury- the document said that ``legalized immigrants would represent `only a modest increase` in enrollment for Child Nutrition Programs, food stamps and Medicaid. Caseloads would be 2 to 3 percent higher
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